AA5342 mishap investigation Dear NTSB Investigators: Important points related to AA 5342 mishap investigation: 1. From the time the CRJ flight crew accepted and was assigned the River visual Approach to RW 1, and later Circling to RW 31, FAA ATC no longer considered the flight to be operating under FAR IFR rules,Continue reading “AA 5324 in DC Feb 2025”
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The Dangers of Landing in Fog, or with a Low Cloud Ceiling, Especially When Hand Flying and Using Flight Director Guidance for a Precision or Non-precision Approach, or Hand Flying and Receiving an Air Traffic Control Precision or Non-precision Radar Guided Approach
The Dangers of Landing in Fog, or with a Low Cloud Ceiling, Especially When Hand Flying and Using Flight Director Guidance for a Precision or Non-precision Approach, or Hand Flying and Receiving an Air Traffic Control Precision or Non-precision Radar Guided Approach by International Captain Paul Miller Whenever you are planning a landing in fog,Continue reading “The Dangers of Landing in Fog, or with a Low Cloud Ceiling, Especially When Hand Flying and Using Flight Director Guidance for a Precision or Non-precision Approach, or Hand Flying and Receiving an Air Traffic Control Precision or Non-precision Radar Guided Approach”
Can Commercial Airlines Achieve ‘One Level of Safety’ By Embarking on a Program of One Level of Training?
Captain Paul Miller and Captain Dave Williams Abstract: The paper looks at the relationship between training and safety at a major global airline and finds several important aspects. First the paper finds that the training program and the safety program are integrated. In other words, the safety program feeds directly into the training program andContinue reading “Can Commercial Airlines Achieve ‘One Level of Safety’ By Embarking on a Program of One Level of Training?”
Is There Really an Airline Pilot Shortage? My Niece Is Interested in Becoming a Pilot
Is there really a pilot shortage or are the airlines flying smaller numbers of passengers, using smaller jets when they could be flying much larger jets and hauling two to four times as many passengers with the same two pilots?
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